Arkady Shtypel (1944-2024) was a poet, translator, and author of several poetry books. He was born in 1944 in Kattakurgan, in evacuation. He spent his childhood and youth in Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnipro). He studied physics at the Dnepropetrovsk University. He was expelled from the university for attempting to create a samizdat literary magazine and accused of both Zionism and Ukrainian nationalism. After serving in the army, he graduated from the university by correspondence. Since 1969, he has lived in Moscow and published several poetry books. His first book, “Visiting Euclid,” was published in 2002. In 2016, a book of his translations of Russian classical poetry into Ukrainian was published in Kyiv (Publishing House “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”). He was a regular participant of the Kyiv Laurels Festival and poetry programs of the Lviv Publishers Forum. Since 2021, he lived in Odesa; during the last three years of his life, he published two books of poetry in Ukraine (one of them in Ukrainian).